176 Selected Articles in Scientific Serials. [Feb., 1881. 
APPALACHIAN Mountain Crus, Dec. 10.—Mr. H. Murdock read 
a paper on Mt. Cardigan, including accounts of several ascents. 
AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL Society, Dec. 23.—Mr. Thomas 
Davidson read a paper on the recent excavations and discoveries 
at Athens and Olympia. 
Mripp.esex InsTITUTE.—At an adjourned meeting of the Md- 
dlesex Scientific Field Club, held on the 8th of December, 1880, 
the name of the club was changed to that of Middlesex Institute, 
by which name it will hereafter be known. 
Boston Soctety oF NATuRAL History, Jan. 5, 1881.—Dr. M. 
E. Wadsworth discussed the appropriation of the name “‘ Lauren- 
tian” by the Canadian Geological Survey. The President gave 
further details of the structure of the carboniferous millipedes, to 
show that they should be classed as a distinct suborder of Myria- 
pods. Mr. F. W. Putnam exhibited some supposed Palaeolithic 
implements from Massachusetts, and spoke of their discovery and 
character. Mr. J. S. Kingsley presented a collection of Crustacea 
and remarked on some of its rare or curious species. 
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SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 
GEOLOGICAL MaGAzinE.—December. Notes on the occurrence 
of Stone Implements in the coast latitude south of Madras, by R. 
R. Foote. Analysis of Moa egg-shell, by A. Liversidge. Classi- . 
fication of the Pliocene and Pleistocene beds, by C. Reid. The 
Mammoth in Siberia, by H. H. Howorth. The writer maintains 
that in former times when the mammoth abounded in Northern 
Siberia, the climate of this region, extending from the Ural 
mountains to Behring straits, Siberia, was much milder and like 
that of Lithuania at present “where the bison still survives, and 
where so many of the other contemporaries of the mammo 
still live.”) 
ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF Natura History, November.—On 
Carter. 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, January, 1881.—The Albany 
Granite, New Hampshire, and its contact phenomena, by G. W. 
Hawes. 
